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FOX Unites Popular Animated Characters In "Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards"

Stars of FOX's hit animated comedy series Futurama, Bob's Burgers, Family Guy, American Dad and King of the Hill are finally coming together in a first of its kind mobile game titled Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards!

Developed by 20th Century Fox, the collectable-card mobile game allows fans to play as their favourite characters from five of the studio's leading cartoon series. The game challenges players to create the ultimate show-themed deck to compete against others in a series of battles.

The game has been created by Fox Digital Entertainment and GameStop's mobile and web game publishing division, Kongregate.

"We are thrilled to bring together these five animated comedies for the first time in Animation Throwdown: The Quest for Cards," said Emily Greer, CEO and co-founder of Kongregate.

"We are looking forward to integrating characters from these hit series in a unique and exciting way that fans of all he shows will really love."

In Animation Throwdown, Peter Griffin will fight it out with Bob Belcher or Hank Hill while fans get to select an all-star line-up of popular characters from across Fox's slate of series.

The title will launch in the third quarter on iOS and Android devices before hitting further platforms later in the year.

Two years after the all-female reboot of the beloved 1980s franchise arrived, original star Dan Aykroyd is now promising that a true Ghostbusters 3, starring the three surviving OG ‘busters, is on its way. Many thought the death of Harold Ramis, who played Egon Spengler, in 2014 had put paid to a proper reunion, but Aykroyd’s comments suggest that we can look forward to him teaming up with Bill Murray and Ernie Hudson in the near future.

While speaking on The Big Interview With Dan Rather, the man fans know as Dr. Ray Stantz, the heart of the Ghostbusters agreed with Rather’s wording that he was talking about making a “full-blown third Ghostbusters,” with an unknown writer already currently working on the script. Obviously, Aykroyd wouldn’t let on to anything about story details, but he did tease that it’ll try and recapture what worked so well about the original films while giving it a “21st century” twist.

“I think we got a story that’s gonna work. It’s being written by a really goo…

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If so, there's good news from the world of Gozer — there’s a new Ghostbusters movie in the works!

Entertainment Weekly has learned exclusively that Jason Reitman will direct and co-write an upcoming film set in the world that was saved decades previously by the proton pack-wearing working stiffs in the original 1984 movie, which was directed by his father, Ivan Reitman.

“I’ve always thought of myself as the first Ghostbusters fan, when I was a 6-year-old visiting the set. I wanted to make a movie for all the other fans,” Reitman says. “This is the next chapter in the original franchise. It is not a reboot. What happened in the ‘80s happened in the ‘80s, and this is set in the present day.”